2.
(جيّف)

5.
(تجيّف)

7.
(انجيف ⇒ انجاف)

8.
(اجتيف ⇒ اجتاف)

جِيفَةٌ

جِيفَةٌ[A carcass, or corpse, i. e.]a dead body[of a beast or a man], that has become stinking;(Ṣ, Mgh, Ḳ;) or, as some say, in a general sense;[whether stinking or not:](TA:) or, of beasts and cattle, an animal that has died a natural death, or been killed otherwise than in the manner prescribed by the law, and has become stinking:(Mṣb:)[and the corpse of a man: (see جَيَّافٌ:)] pl. [of mult.]جِيَفٌ(Ṣ, Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ) and [of pauc.]أَجْيَافٌ. (Ṣ Ḳ.)[Hence,]جِيفَةُ لَيْلٍ قُطْرُبُ نَهَارٍOne who sleeps all the night, and labours all the day.(TA from a trad. [See also art. قطرب.]) IDrd mentions this word in art. جوف, holding the ى to be originally و. (TA.)

جَيَّافٌ

جَيَّافٌA rifler, or ransacker, of graves;(Ḳ, TA;) because he removes the [grave-] clothes from the corpses, and takes them; or, as some say, because of the stinking nature of his act. (TA.)